All Out!

by ELLIS, ALBERTELLIS, DEBBIE JOFFE

• ISBN13: 9781591024521
• ISBN10: 1591024528
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-30
• Publisher: Prometheus Books

Summary

Albert Ellis, the renowned creator of one of the most successful forms of psychotherapy -- Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) -- tells all in this candid autobiography.

Author Biography

Albert Ellis, PHD, authored more than eighty books, including many popular bestsellers, and was president of the Albert Ellis Institute for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. He practiced psychotherapy, marriage and family counseling, and sex therapy for over sixty years. Other books by Albert Ellis available from Prometheus Books include The Myth of Self-Esteem; The Road to Tolerance; Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: It Works for Me---It Can Work for You; Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors: New Directions for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy; and (with Raymond J. Yeager) Why Some Therapies Don't Work: The Dangers of Transpersonal Psychology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 11
Introduction: On Writing an Impossible Memoir	p. 13
Chronology: The Sidewalks of Pittsburgh and New York	p. 23
Coping with Emotional Problems: My Neglectful Father and My Low Frustration Tolerance	p. 40
My Sex and Love Life: My First Great Love (Besides Myself)	p. 45
Critique of Chapter 1	p. 60
Chronology: My First Hospitalization	p. 63
Coping with Emotional Problems: My Compulsive Rhyming	p. 79
My Sex and Love Life: My Second Great Love	p. 84
Critique of Chapter 2	p. 108
Chronology: Other Childhood Ailments	p. 116
Coping with Emotional Problems: Back to My Neglectful Parents and My Low Frustration Tolerance	p. 140
My Sex and Love Life: My Propensity for La Grande Passion	p. 148
Critique of Chapter 3	p. 152
Chronology: More Early Frustrations	p. 163
Coping with Emotional Problems: Still More of My Low Frustration Tolerance and My Anxiety	p. 198
My Sex and Love Life: My Sex and Love Life Really Gets Going Full Blast	p. 218
Critique of Chapter 4	p. 239
Chronology: The Good Years from Eight to Fifteen, and Thenà	p. 253
Coping with Emotional Problems: Overcoming My Social Phobias and Coping with My Early Sexual Frustrations and Irregularities	p. 276
My Sex and Love Life: My Love Life with Robin, Rhoda, and Shirley	p. 305
Critique of Chapter 5	p. 323
1934 to 1937 and My Relationship with Karyl Corper	p. 335
Was I an Irresponsible Parent?	p. 389
My Tremendous Affair with Gertrude Birnbaum	p. 396
Important Influences	p. 435
My Relationships	p. 505
The Second-Worst Year of My Life-And How I Coped with It	p. 524
A Better Year	p. 540
The Bogus Albert Ellis Institute	p. 545
The Final Chapter by Debbie Joffe Ellis	p. 560
Epilogue: What Now?	p. 577
Final Letter	p. 579
Letter from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg	p. 581
Bibliography	p. 583
Index	p. 633
About the Authors	p. 667
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